The role of horror in film

What makes a movie scary? And why is there an audience?

Those are questions for the class room or coffee lounge. IMO, DvG was able to use the current monsters of our public psyche as a basis for grabbing on to that back of the mind fear. And not to be outdone, the right amount of thoughtful comedy to put the whole story into place.

This movie will live on in cult classic not from it's worship of evil manifested by the essence of historical figures, but of the folly of our own hubris. There are some funny lines and scenes that will become part of the meme that is the knowledge of funny movie quotes.